Creating a bootable G5 backup on external drive

Can anyone help point me to instructions for creating a bootable backup for a G5 quad v.Tiger_10.4.11 using a LaCie d2 Quadra 500GB external with Firewire 800. I'll also be using this external drive to backup my files/apps daily.
Thanks for your help!

Along with BDAqua's excellent suggestions, there's also SuperDuper!. Like Carbon Copy Cloner, the free version of SuperDuper! will make a fully functioning clone of your source disk.
I use FireWire 800 enclosures purchased from OWC (Other World Computing) and they are bootable. This is the enclosure I bought. It's a bit cheaper to buy the enclosure alone and then pretty much any ATA drive you want to put in it elsewhere. Saved me about $40 a drive to assemble it myself. But they do sell the same enclosure with various size drives already installed if you want to one stop shop.

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